Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site, police said Friday. Nineteen other workers were ...

Ten people were killed and more than 20 others wounded in a riot in Indonesia’s Papua province, police said on Friday. The riots began Thursday afternoon in Wamena town in the Jayawijaya district of ...

Policymakers in Jakarta are forging ahead with a plan to divide Papua into four provinces despite strong local opposition. Jakarta claims this will accelerate development and bring the government ...

A supporter of the independence of the West Papua wearing a headband with the colors of the banned separatist ‘Morning Star’ flag takes part in a rally commemorating the 60th anniversary of the failed ...

JAKARTA, May 27 (Reuters) - Indonesia's plan to create new provinces in its impoverished eastern region of Papua has not been adequately discussed with the local population and is not viable, its ...

Rising tensions in Papua have Indonesian authorities worried about possible international intervention in the nation’s easternmost province, reports the head of a government-funded study on how to ...

Changes to Papua’s special autonomy law last year allowed the central government to create the new provinces, prompting the MRP to claim the change undermined autonomy and to file a judicial review at ...

Several years ago in the town of Merauke, on the southern coast of Papua province in Indonesia, a young woman was diagnosed with HIV. Upon learning that she had been infected by her boyfriend, ...